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The attorney general of the State of Michigan is the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. state of Michigan.The officeholder is elected statewide in the November general election alongside the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives.
Nessel is the second openly lesbian woman elected attorney general of a state in the United States (after Maura Healey), and the first openly LGBT person elected to statewide office in Michigan. She is also the first Jewish person elected Attorney General of Michigan. [2] In 2014, Nessel successfully argued for the plaintiffs in DeBoer v.
Kelley was appointed Attorney General in 1961 by Governor John Swainson to fill a vacancy left when Paul L. Adams became a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.Kelley was elected in his own right as the Democratic nominee ten times before his retirement [E] from the position in 1999, when he was succeeded by the future Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm.
In October 2017, Tom Leonard announced his campaign to be Michigan's next attorney general. [74] Leonard would be the first attorney general to have previous experience working in the office. [75] Leonard named fighting violent crime, prosecuting sexual predators and putting a stop to the opioid epidemic as his top priorities. [76]
After U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, accused Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel of potential bias in bringing charges against pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan ...
Michael Anthony Cox (born December 30, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as Michigan's 52nd Attorney General from 2003 to 2011. He was the first Republican to hold that office since Frank Millard in 1955.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general announced charges Wednesday against a former township clerk and a lawyer who had supported attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 ...
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday that she has filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election as ...